He's not too bad, thanks. His appetite's still a bit weird, but nevertheless he's eating a healthy amount each day. Still likes his prescription food (when he feels like eating that is). Taking all his meds like a good boy. Things still coming out the other end OK. He doesn't want to do much walking these days, we only ever walk as far as the street / front garden of the building now, but there are still all kinds of people and things to sniff and bark at out there so I take him out fairly frequently for his amusement.

At night he "walks" with his nose and ears. We go to the end of the path, stand very still, and for a few minutes we sniff/listen as far as we can to the east. Then we turn around and do the same thing to the west. Once we are satisfied that all the pertinent information has been gathered, we go home for a treat and a nap.

credit sherpa 3-12-13. Type ft of pg3 right under Bathia_Mapes. Lil Bub was cover girl for HSUS All Animals mag/rag for Jan-Feb which I finally pried pages apart & read. Issue delivered wet, pgs stuck. Cover tale was actually all 5 celebrity cats who purrformed Hard To Be Cat @ Christmas, headline few wks back., Believe to have found genuine group to be Cats Across America, which didn't Seek well. Most results for Cats the stage play.Still Cold Here, tho not as bad as some other locations.Relieved of course to hear insurance of predle's attacker will pay & that she appears safe. Hope no whiplash, as was mentioned.Onwd & furrwd, now I's got use of imgur back. Truly Ought copy sno man's pix directions to have, just in case. Best Caturday Luck with next mob of fosters there --

John Buck 41:Sickapie: Got an email last night from the superintendent of my daughter's school reminding parents to dress our kids appropriately during this cold weather. Really? I was going to send her today wearing her favorite gymnastics leotard, but thanks for the heads up, Captain Obvious. Honestly.

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My nephew is a teacher in Downeast Maine. They've had a bit more snow that we have had here and used up their allotment of 'snow days'. His school doesn't get out til 6/20, as opposed to the original end date of 6/6. Not to get all 'when I was a boy' but yeah, back in the day we needed a freakin' blizzard to cancel school.

A generation of snowflakes (no pun intended) is being raised. I fear for our future (and not just for this reason).

Yup. Our school district is extremely hypersensitive when cancelling school, and they've used up all their allotted days as well. When I was in school, it was almost never cancelled.

iBette:Sickapie: lilyspad: Sickapie: Got an email last night from the superintendent of my daughter's school reminding parents to dress our kids appropriately during this cold weather. Really? I was going to send her today wearing her favorite gymnastics leotard, but thanks for the heads up, Captain Obvious. Honestly.

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You would probably not be surprised at what I've seen kids wear in weather like yours....adult supervision is not always there, unfortunately. At least they're trying.....

Oh I hear ya. The one kid I thought of was 2 blocks away who always wears a t-shirt no matter the weather and no coat. Mom walks him to school every day. Looks to be about 8 yrs. old. WTF??

WTF, indeed! That's really sad, and infuriating. Those parents are just asking their kids to hate or at least disrespect them when they reach adolescence. The local elementary school has coats to lend. It's a small enough community that the school usually gets them back.

Hello, everybuddy! I am glad to see we've got all good news so far, with wonderdogs eating and probationary periods passing by and people not being splattered all over the highway and stuff. YAY! and Conga-rats and general happy bounces and skritches and whatnot for everyone! Also, I think Predle needs to take the "kick me" sign off her car's bumper. That happens entirely too much to you, hon. Scary! Glad you're OK and I do count that as "good news", but it still sucks.

I woulda been in last night, but I decided to try the water marble technique for my nail art and it is messy and a tad time consuming, so I had stuff all over my hands and realized too late "CATURDAY IS STARTING AND I AM PRIMPING!!!". I was very disappointed in myself and my poor timing. However, I am very proud of the results and will try to get a pic later. This is my first attempt at what I usually see labeled an "advanced" technique and while they aren't totally perfect, they are still very much AWESOME. I'll also get better at it, so after a few more runs with it, my results WILL be perfect. YAY!

For those who don't know the water marble technique, these are not my nails (mine are longer and I cleaned up my cuticles much better - I'm incredibly fussy about that sort of thing), but that's about the same V-day appropriate color scheme I went with and what it looks like when it's done.

I gotta go clean the kitchen. Someone made a mess in there while I was out yesterday and I'm tired of looking at it. Maybe I'll make myself diet treats when I'm done. I'm not so good at this "diet" thing. :-(

Flour + H2O = LOLcat, recent post by Real Women. Small wonder didna have that, haven't been to ICHC in yocks! Included in beg from Pleasant Valley Donkey Rescue in Miles TX yesterday. Quite Early new foals -- normally born in March. Main mucker-out of stalls if any said that Like A Nidiot he recently wrecked one of 2 tractors that were in service there, truck not doing well either. Many need fed, tractors vital to that. Pic of him in hosp bed with various medical attachments. I sent them pittance but promised to share pix of relative newbies. Don't believe I can drop URL in masked clickable format as it ought be. E ought be IP if you wish to help. Also get begs from SaveHorsesFromSlaughterForMeat orgs.Like our Feline Masters & Mistresses can tell, soft touches are So Obvious eh?.

Let me add to the good news folks. I missed caturday last week delivering two cats from a nice lady who passed away to her grandson. I spent a couple of late evenings at her assisted living place so the cats could get used to me then drove them "up Nordt" in a four hour trip that the cats were NOT appreciative of. However, they were very happy at their new furever home, and started exploring, using litterboxs, after an hour or so. I got an email from the grandson that they seemed happy after a couple of days. Kudos to the assisted living place letting the cats stay there for a week until they could be moved out without charging rent.

Oh, I wished I had saved the picture, but somewhere on the web there is a picture of a person's cat's prints that are so appropriate. It shows two pawprints heading out of the door into the snow and that is all. The caption was "apparently too cold".

exvaxman:Let me add to the good news folks. I missed caturday last week delivering two cats from a nice lady who passed away to her grandson. I spent a couple of late evenings at her assisted living place so the cats could get used to me then drove them "up Nordt" in a four hour trip that the cats were NOT appreciative of. However, they were very happy at their new furever home, and started exploring, using litterboxs, after an hour or so. I got an email from the grandson that they seemed happy after a couple of days. Kudos to the assisted living place letting the cats stay there for a week until they could be moved out without charging rent.

YAY!!! I LOVE nice stories like that! Kudos to you and the assisted living facility for your deeds! My faith in humanity is shaky at best, and the only reason it hasn't fallen right off the cliff into the chasm of dirty looks and "gods, you all suck" is because of stuff like that. It doesn't seem like much, but it really, truly is.

You ever wonder about the people who post pics on the net, probably just to a group of folks they know, and how they react if they are just cruising around the net "la de la la la" *clicks link* and suddenly they're looking at a pic they posted, like elebenty months or years ago, except now it's somewhere completely different they'd never been to or seen before? I wonder how common that really is.

Real Women*blush*. Thanks.In my area I have seen severe differences in upbringings and I as well have a less than stellar view on my semi-urban area for the next generation. Some are awesome, but like the 14 year old who an officer was going to ask why he was not in school that ditched a gun that went off, had an arrest record at that age as long as your arm, I am seeing more and more of that due to disconnected parents. (The extreme far end, obviously). Income does not seem the issue, just the involvement of parents./rant off

Hector is a water kittie. I have caught him splashing around in the water bowl and the toilet bowl, not trying to drink, just stick his front paws in and splashy, splashy.

Here he is at the sink. He tries to bite the water stream, then tries to catch it and licks the water off his paws. I need to get a Drinkwell 360 (eventualy when i can afford it) instead of using a mixing bowl for water. I think both cats would love it.

Real Women Drink Akvavit:[1.bp.blogspot.com image 420x340]You ever wonder about the people who post pics on the net, probably just to a group of folks they know, and how they react if they are just cruising around the net "la de la la la" *clicks link* and suddenly they're looking at a pic they posted, like elebenty months or years ago, except now it's somewhere completely different they'd never been to or seen before? I wonder how common that really is.

I should start making up back stories for some of them.

I understand how people could feel about that.It's hard to believe but the the picture below set off an argument between me and my sister at Christmas.I was showing her the photo at my niece's house on the day, I had said I posted it on fark for something and she went nuts. "You posted that where anyone could see it?""How dare you." etc,etc.This from the person with a facebook page full of real life info and photos. A person who's email address is their real name and has my info posted on ancestry dot com complete with name,birth date and city of birth so she could track our family history. But she was worried about this picture.

catmandu:Hector is a water kittie. I have caught him splashing around in the water bowl and the toilet bowl, not trying to drink, just stick his front paws in and splashy, splashy.

Here he is at the sink. He tries to bite the water stream, then tries to catch it and licks the water off his paws. I need to get a Drinkwell 360 (eventualy when i can afford it) instead of using a mixing bowl for water. I think both cats would love it.

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Gremie has a water dish on the table that I refresh twice a day so that he has somewhere to wash his feet,If he really wants a drink he uses Jack's dish on the floor. He usually tells me when Jack's dish needs to be refilled too.

lilyspad:[i.imgur.com image 332x591]I'm just throwing this out there for the laughs. Last weekend, one of the guys had a hair bandana for the Seahawks, and took it off during lunch. I put it on for fun, and a manager took this pic. I look completely deranged, but I don't care. :D

exvaxman, will ignore your doubtless qualified Rant & FangQ for ferrying kittehs to where they needed be.Make vague attempts to edit at this point; long time mbr of local radio club died earlier this wk @ age 85. We were Greatly Remiss in not visiting while he still lived. This is not furrst time for this! Sometimes visits highly curtailed due to Rampant Bugs -- not this time. He Hoo Died hadn't been able to be active for Yrs, since his Lady Wife died. She at least was Feline Fan, got to see Furry & Sons if not quite GangOf5 in our garage, Ago. They've already been missed, didna go see him while he lived (we bad!). He was very good guy, active in licencing classes when able.Vis is tomorrow midday, my chorus has reh 2-5 if it doesn't snow unusual lately Ganze Menge overnight.oversized & re-size, Coonie Fur from here didn't need date! Is perennial!! Also re-scale reqd, is bit 2 big.

lilyspad:predle: There's nothing like being stopped in traffic, looking in your rear view mirror and seeing a Honda Ridgeline coming towards you with no driver. The guy was trying to get something off the floor and sat up just in time to see his car smash into mine. I'm fine, my car, however, is pretty crunched up.

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OHNOES!!!!!! Are you sure you're okay? GAH!!!!

Yeah, what lilyspad asked! Did you get yourself checked out at Dr Tinycat's at least? If you end up with medical problems later (sometimes it happens), you might need to establish a paper trail to prove that you aren't just trying to cash in on an unfortunate accident. Especially when the insurance company has decided to be a dick about paying up.

/I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in the interwebz//don't even look like one

LaulajaSorry to hear of the loss of any "radio club" member, be it a ham, an am-dx'er, scanner aficionado, etc. I am thinking at this point that I am the tag generation on those. While I am nowhere close to retirement age, the local radio folks I meet with are mostly in elderly homes or well past retirement ago.

exvaxman:Real Women*blush*. Thanks.In my area I have seen severe differences in upbringings and I as well have a less than stellar view on my semi-urban area for the next generation. Some are awesome, but like the 14 year old who an officer was going to ask why he was not in school that ditched a gun that went off, had an arrest record at that age as long as your arm, I am seeing more and more of that due to disconnected parents. (The extreme far end, obviously). Income does not seem the issue, just the involvement of parents./rant off

I can see (and have seen) where income and education of the parents can impact the level of involvement with their kids, but you're right - it does come down to involvement. Growing up on the edge of SoCen LA I noticed very early on that kids who had no parents around - either at work all the time or 'out to lunch' for assorted reasons - tended to adopt backup family members, sometimes gangs. Other times they'd end up with families like mine who were pretty laid back, welcoming and well behaved (most of the time). It was almost always just a reaction to not having anyone else in their lives though. To think, there are entire tousanbajillion dollar studies done about that sort of thing and all they had to do is come over to my house for krumkakker and kaffe and ask "what the dealie-o, dudes?". I coulda told 'em by the time I hit jr high - if not sooner.

gremlin1:Real Women Drink Akvavit: [1.bp.blogspot.com image 420x340]You ever wonder about the people who post pics on the net, probably just to a group of folks they know, and how they react if they are just cruising around the net "la de la la la" *clicks link* and suddenly they're looking at a pic they posted, like elebenty months or years ago, except now it's somewhere completely different they'd never been to or seen before? I wonder how common that really is.

I should start making up back stories for some of them.

I understand how people could feel about that.It's hard to believe but the the picture below set off an argument between me and my sister at Christmas.I was showing her the photo at my niece's house on the day, I had said I posted it on fark for something and she went nuts. "You posted that where anyone could see it?""How dare you." etc,etc.This from the person with a facebook page full of real life info and photos. A person who's email address is their real name and has my info posted on ancestry dot com complete with name,birth date and city of birth so she could track our family history. But she was worried about this picture.[grmmmie.smugmug.com image 313x300]

My mom is notorious for oversharing online. I follow right behind her and do "mop up" when I catch her doing it. I think at this point it's a lost cause.

"Yes, sis, I posted that kiddie pic for everyone. I'll take it down when you remove my personal information from your own virtual display of derp".

By the way, I was catching up on my spam (I like some of my spam. Probably because I like to shop - just can't afford to shop right now) and taking a break from my cleaning and got some Caturday appropriate V-day ideas! OK, just one idea and it's from Think Geek, but it's cheesy cute.

Long stem kittens! They're $50, so about the same as long stem roses and will last FUREVER. I know which one I'd prefer!

PredleOh gosh, I didn't see your original post. After my last accident. (A jerk late for his dr. Appoint was doing 120 in the fast lane, pulled into the slow lane not seeing me and totaled my car) I immediately emailed the driver's (now former insurance company) with my aches and pains, followed by a trip to the doctor the next day. Please do the same.... Four years later still in the court system looking for progressive to even pay a start on my medical bills. Fortunately, MetLife, my insurance co stepped in and covered most everything. Complain about any/everything, get yourself into a doctor for any complaint, etc. in my instance I required knee surgery. I did not think it was anything but a bruise at first.